Virtual CICS User Group

Sponsored by:

The Virtual CICS user group is free to its members.

We are pleased that IntelliMagic, Broadcom, and Data Kinetics Ltd are able to help us maintain the independence and existence of this user group.

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If you would also like to co-sponsors the Virtual CICS user group, please contact us.

The user group has been in existence since 2007 and is well-respected among users of IMS. The user group gives its sponsors an opportunity to show that they are working with, and helping to build, the IMS user community.

Currently, the user group meets six times a year with a presentation filling most of the meeting. In the other months, members receive a newsletter. And there is a Facebook page, a Twitter feed, and a LinkedIn group keeping members up-to-date with information about new products or product updates, and articles about IMS.

Virtual CICS Articles and Blogs

CICS Db2 resource (RESNAME) collection and visualization using CICS IA client

Swarna G

24 April, 2023
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Lifting the Lid on CICS Temporary Storage

Andy Wright and Darren Beard

March, 2023
Enterprise Tech Journal

Detect and remediate wait problems using IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS

Ezriel Gross

21 February 2023
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

z/OS Connect v3.0.65 now available: call RESTful APIs from CICS COBOL applications and the z/OS Connect Operator is enhanced to support Routes and Ingress

Kate Bittles

23 January 2023
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

CICS File Control: Ways of Accessing Data

Andy Wright, Felicity Merrison, and Dai Middleton

January 2023
Enterprise Tech Journal

Lifting the Lid on CICS File Control

Andy Wright, Felicity Merrison, and Dai Middleton

November 2022
Enterprise Tech Journal

Navigating directly between CICS Task History and Db2 Thread History

Paul Kenney and Mick Harris

3 November 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

CICS IA – Host side report generation

Preethikashree M

18 October 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

CICS IA – Scanner component in CICS IA

Preethikashree M

18 October 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

CICS Region Tagging

Darren Beard and Andy Wright

July 2022
Enterprise Tech Journal

10 Major Enhancements to the Zowe Explorer for IBM CICS

Jeffin Siby

12 July 2022
Zowe

Troubleshooting WLM Missed Goals with CICS Transaction Data: Integrated Visibility into SMF Data

Todd Havekost

2 June 2022

CICS Feature Toggles

Andy Wright and Darren Beard

May 2022
Enterprise Tech Journal

Organizing CICS regions into OMEGAMON monitoring CICSplexs

Ezriel Gross

31 May 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Why you should consider using the Elastic Stack(TM) to view your CICS TS data

Nina Mirski-Fitton

27 April 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Increase business agility with CICS Transaction Server

Mark Cocker

5 April 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

CICS IA - Easy access to CICS IA jobs via z/OS explorer

Preethikashree M

1 April 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

A new way to raise requirements on Z Software products

John Tilling

25 March 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

CICS VR-Executing batch backout when the RCDSs are unavailable

Dionne A Nerissa

24 November 2021
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

What happens when you pair z/OS Connect with IMS?

Richard Antikoll

8 February 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Seamless VSAM data transfer between Host & PC

Dionne A Nerissa

24 November 2021
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

CICS VR - CHANGE ACCUMULATION CICS

Chitra Devi S

24 November 2021
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Develop a JMS application for CICS Liberty

Phil Wakelin

6 October 2021
IBM Developer website

CICS Security, TLS Enhancement, Updated CICS Documentation and More

Trevor Eddolls

23 August 2021
TechChannel

The CICS Command Level Translator

Darren Beard and Andy Wright

Issue 2 2021
Enterprise Tech Journal

The Optimal Approach TO CICS Application Performance Tuning

Werner Zulli

Issue 1 2021
Enterprise Tech Journal

Which version of JCICS should I use?

Ben Cox

4 March 2021
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Using OpenID Connect with CICS Liberty

Eric Phan

19 October 2020
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

On the Move: Data Migration from VSAM to Db2

Nina Mirski-Fitton

16 October 2020
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

CICS Serviceability Enhancements to Dump and Trace

Darren Beard and Andy Wright

Issue 4 2020
Enterprise Tech Journal

CICS Explorer, z/OS Explorer, and CICS TS V5.6

Dave Nice

21 September 2020
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

TLS 1.2 session ID caching for CICS in a sysplex

Ian Mitchell

2 September 2020
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Using MQMONITORs to simplify the administration of CICS-MQ trigger monitors and MQ message consumers

Shuai Cao

12 August 2020
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Configuring Kerberos for CICS with RACF and Microsoft Active Directory

John Taylor

10 August 2020
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Pervasive Encryption with CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

Catherine Moxey

10 August 2020
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Continuous Innovation Creates Success ... and Helps Longevity: Introducing CICS TS V5.6 – a Release for Developers

Nick Garrod

Issue 3 2020
Enterprise Executive

Opening the CICS Transaction Server Trace Toolkit

Andy Wright and Darren Beard PhD

Issue 3 2020
Enterprise Tech Journal

Using the Liberty angel to access authorized z/OS services

Eric Phan

2 March 2020
CICS DevCenter

CICS and Kafka Integration

Ailian Mi

6 January 2020
CICS DevCenter

Avoiding HTTP outages by managing Liberty HTTP endpoints

Eric Phan

8 July 2019
CICS DevCenter

Managing enterprise-wide deployment of CICS Explorer

Dave Nice

25 March 2019
CICS DevCenter

JSON Web Tokens (JWT): Now supported in CICS

Eric Phan

6 February 2019
GitHub

OSGi Demystified: 5.2 – Declarative Services: A Tutorial

Alexander D Brown

29 January 2019
GitHub

System Programmers: An introduction to Node.js in CICS

Mark Cocker

8 January 2019
CICS DevCenter

Node.js Developers: an introduction to Node.js

Mark Cocker

8 January 2019
CICS DevCenter

Enterprise Architects: an introduction to Node.js in CICS

Mark Cocker

8 January 2019
CICS DevCenter

How to recreate the source of Program List Tables (PLTs)

Darren Beard

20 December 2018
CICS DevCenter

CICS TS 5.5 increases performance of CICS channels and containers

John Taylor

5 December 2018
CICS DevCenter

Virtual CICS User Group

Sponsored by:

The Virtual CICS user group is free to its members.

We are pleased that IntelliMagic, Broadcom and DataKinetics are able to help us maintain the independence and existence of this group.

Sponsorship opportunity

If you would also like to co-sponsors the Virtual CICS user group, please contact us.

Currently, the user group meets six times a year with a presentation filling most of the meeting. In the other months, members receive a newsletter. And there is a Facebook page, a Twitter feed, and a LinkedIn group keeping members up-to-date with information about new products or product updates, and articles about CICS.